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Jamie had got it into his Head, that by being baptized he would become free, Shedden testified, telling the court he had opposed that baptism because of the Fancies of Freedom which it might instill into his Slave. Reverend Witherspoon, Shedden claimed, had told Jamie over and over again that baptism by no means freed him from his Servitude. By giving Montgomery such a certificate, Witherspoon, intentionally or not, had reinforced Montgomerys sense that he was more than an enslaved piece of propertyas Shedden maintained, asserting that to buy Montgomery he had paid 56 Virginia Currency as well as laying out considerable Sums for his Apprentice Fee, his Board, Clothing, and the Expence of recovering him, &c. Montgomery was not entitled to the legal status implicit in the principle of Habeus Corpus , for by Magna Charta only a Freeman is intitled thereto, Shedden said